Tongues of the Children: The Upper Canada Chronicles

In 1995, prolific Brantford poet John B. Lee won the CBC Tilden Award for “Kicheraboo, We Are Dying,” an ethnographically valuable series of poems about slavery and the history of blacks in Upper Canada. The ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Arguments with Gravity

By Michael Crummey

Michael Crummey’s first book of poems, Arguments with Gravity is broken into five sections, each introduced by a contemporary epigram that encapsulates the poet’s concerns and acknowledges his influences. Unfortunately, everyone else is alive in ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Crazy for Canada

By Noa Schwartz, Mick Beaumont and Susan Tebbutt, illus.

Librarians looking for a picture book about Canada for young children will be pleased with this offering from a small new publisher. Crazy for Canada is a short book that features each region of the ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The First Red Maple Leaf

By Ludmila Zeman

This story takes place long ago in a northern world ruled by Iceheart, the terrible spirit of winter. Life is hard for people and animals alike. One day a boy finds a goose trapped beneath ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Matthew and the Midnight Ball Game

By Allen Morgan, Michael Martchenko, illus.

Just in time for baseball season comes this latest offering in the Morgan/Martchenko series about young Matthew’s dream adventures. Daytime fantasies about a ball game on World Series day become nighttime dreams of a journey ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Stand and Deliver: Inside Canadian Comedy

By Andrew Clark

Canadians are funny. There’s Jim Carrey and his $20-million mug; there’s what’s left of the SCTV gang; there’s Lorne Michaels, who invented Saturday Night Live. Before them went Wayne and Shuster, who are still famous ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

Hold On, McGinty!

By Nancy Hartry, Don Kilby, illus.

Since the 1940s when Scuffy the Tugboat and the canoe in Paddle-to-the-Sea made their epic journeys down the eastern waterways to the Atlantic, the idea of a little boat crossing the vastness of North America ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Maple Moon

By Connie Brummel Crook, Scott Cameron, illus.

There are many stories of how maple syrup was discovered but none as moving as the fictionalized one told in Maple Moon, where maple syrup is only one of the discoveries made.Crook tells the story ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Jeremiah Learns to Read

By Jo Ellen Bogart, Laura Fernandez and Rick Jacobson, illus.

Jeremiah does not fit the down-and-out image of an illiterate old man. He’s led a particularly successful life on the farm, where he builds split-rail fences, cooks buttermilk pancakes, and grows delicious vegetables. Although he ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ The Hollow Tree

By Janet Lunn

Some months ago, writer Janet Lunn published an article about her distress at the trend toward turning Canadian historical sites into tawdry theme parks. In the article, Lunn is modest about her own reputation as ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

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Tongues of the Children: The Upper Canada Chronicles

Arguments with Gravity

Crazy for Canada

The First Red Maple Leaf

Matthew and the Midnight Ball Game

Stand and Deliver: Inside Canadian Comedy

Hold On, McGinty!

★ Maple Moon

Jeremiah Learns to Read

★ The Hollow Tree

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